What medical issues have you had to deal with throughout your life?

My health until age 47 was very good.  Had three pregnancies and delivered three children.

At age 47 I was diagnosed with a non cancerous brain tumor.  It was a meningioma.  It was removed during a nine hour operation at Harbourview Medical Center in Seattle.  Dr. Winn.  The result of that operation was that my vocal chords and the right side of my throat were permanently paralyzed.  I learned to speak again and after six months of eating through a feeding tube, I learned to eat again.  I have problems with coughing because of the paralysis but I am doing much better at age 63.

At age 59 I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Left breast.  Stage One.  Had a lumpectomy, radiation and chemo. The chemo was because of an OncoDX test on breast tissue which was medium risk and doctor said it was up to me as to chemo and if I had it I would decrease my recurrence chance by three percent.  Not too much but I went through it anyway.

 As of December of 19, 2015, two more of my sisters have been diagnosed with breast cancer, stage one, and all four of the other sisters are Chek 2 positive, which is a gene mutation that is a marker for increased chance of breast and colon cancer.  I tested negative for it so I cannot pass it on to my children.